"Come and get it!"

Each night in Paso, two families paired up to prepare dinner. We ate like kings. Every meal was great: the Camp's night one steak and salmon, the Wada's and Katos's night two did a Japanese "Shabu Shabu" ("Swish Swish"....picture fondue with a light broth instead of oil), the Graves' and Abrajano's did Father's Day Brunch, and the Coogan's and Alvin's rounded it off with a Mexican Fiesta.


Aiden and Shane

Kitchen was spacious

Father's Day brunch on the Patio

Hailey showing off her strength on Riley

Activities on the Paso Compound

Karaoke performed 2 out of the 3 nights

Underwater Bungee if you look close

Shane being thrown in

2 out of the 3 nights we had a dance party complete with disco ball and strobe light

The Alvin's dog came on the trip, Hailey loved him

The older kids trying to launch water balloons on the little guys in the pool

Bullseye

Give the kids some Pop-its and tell them the bad guys are coming

Caroline's 10th Bday--we celebrated at the house

Target practice

Wine Line Tour

We had 3 babysitters come to the house while the adults took The Wine Line tour. It picked us up at the house and drove around for 6 hours.

First tasting Tobin James- the most fun winery by far

The girls all switched outfits with each other at the last winery- something new and different

There was a porcupine at one of the wineries that would just walk around. It had just given birth that day and the baby was there too. Random

Holly Nicole and I

Gene and Jesse

Our Group- We are standing as couples, the outfit determined who our spouse was. If that makes any sense - I wore the strapless dress

No one wanted to go back home, lots of laughter

Wine tasting w/ Kids

The first day we arrived in Paso we were all motivated to get out and see the sights. We took 14 kids to 4 different wineries and somehow it was easy.

wine tasting

We found a swing at one of the wineries, a big hit

The girls stuck together all weekend long (there were only 4) and were the best of buds. The older 2 always wanted little sisters and they got their wish

Dover Vineyards- Jesse's favorite for the day

Demonstrating how it's done

Paso Robles- The Compound

Dancing Deer Farms in Paso Robles was so picturesque, it couldn't have been any more perfectly planned. I was a little nervous going away with 7 families and staying in the same house for 3 nights and 16 kids. All the adults were blown away with how well the kids just disappeared and showed up for meals. We all had such a good time that there is already talk about next year.

So they thought...................

View of our compound from the trails

The pool that Jesse constructed an underwater bungee for the kids

The kids getting ready for some shooting practice